Melissa 🏳️🌈
@melis-willis.bsky.social
📚 Book Lover | Word Weaver
🌀 Family Historian | Ghost Chaser
✊🏼 Gen X Resister | Truth Seeker
💜 Blogger & Photographer: Share a cuppa w/ me on the threshold of all that’s been & all that’s yet to come @ undertheelderberrytree.com
📍NM, USA
🌀 Family Historian | Ghost Chaser
✊🏼 Gen X Resister | Truth Seeker
💜 Blogger & Photographer: Share a cuppa w/ me on the threshold of all that’s been & all that’s yet to come @ undertheelderberrytree.com
📍NM, USA
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Melissa 🏳️🌈
@melis-willis.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Hi, hey, hello! New here? Thanks for showing up! A few things to know ⬇️
I curate my feed carefully. No Follow for Follow without vetting.
I post about:
* Books
* Blogging
* Cats
* DEI
* Dissent
* Farming
* Genealogy
* Justice
* Music
* Nature
* Politics
* Whatever else moves me
Cool? Cool!
I curate my feed carefully. No Follow for Follow without vetting.
I post about:
* Books
* Blogging
* Cats
* DEI
* Dissent
* Farming
* Genealogy
* Justice
* Music
* Nature
* Politics
* Whatever else moves me
Cool? Cool!
Just ate grilled cheese for dinner on home baked bread and I think I shall perish of fulfillment 🫠 It’s the little things.
December 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Just ate grilled cheese for dinner on home baked bread and I think I shall perish of fulfillment 🫠 It’s the little things.
Happy Friday! Today’s reminder is to raise hell and hug trees 💚
Get into some good trouble, if you wil! Practice a random act of kindness… Spread hope… Do something, anything, that feeds your soul and is beneficial to someone else in even the tiniest way ✨
Get into some good trouble, if you wil! Practice a random act of kindness… Spread hope… Do something, anything, that feeds your soul and is beneficial to someone else in even the tiniest way ✨
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy Friday! Today’s reminder is to raise hell and hug trees 💚
Get into some good trouble, if you wil! Practice a random act of kindness… Spread hope… Do something, anything, that feeds your soul and is beneficial to someone else in even the tiniest way ✨
Get into some good trouble, if you wil! Practice a random act of kindness… Spread hope… Do something, anything, that feeds your soul and is beneficial to someone else in even the tiniest way ✨
Every time I find someone on the interwebs I’m interested in following on social media, I look to Bluesky first. Occasionally, I can’t find a profile at all. More often than not, though, they do have a profile but stopped posting ~10 months ago. Meta boomerang effect? Total bummer, regardless.
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Every time I find someone on the interwebs I’m interested in following on social media, I look to Bluesky first. Occasionally, I can’t find a profile at all. More often than not, though, they do have a profile but stopped posting ~10 months ago. Meta boomerang effect? Total bummer, regardless.
Finished: Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake. It was just the sweet seasonal second chance romance I needed in an ever darkening world.
📚 45/25
What’s next? I have no idea 🤷🏻♀️ Happily taking recs ❤️
#booksky📚💙 #lgbtq
📚 45/25
What’s next? I have no idea 🤷🏻♀️ Happily taking recs ❤️
#booksky📚💙 #lgbtq
December 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Finished: Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake. It was just the sweet seasonal second chance romance I needed in an ever darkening world.
📚 45/25
What’s next? I have no idea 🤷🏻♀️ Happily taking recs ❤️
#booksky📚💙 #lgbtq
📚 45/25
What’s next? I have no idea 🤷🏻♀️ Happily taking recs ❤️
#booksky📚💙 #lgbtq
Reposted by Melissa 🏳️🌈
Don't forget your indie author friends suffering from the Amazon boycott.
Make sure to hit up alternate sources for indie books to help them make up the lack!
#booksky
Make sure to hit up alternate sources for indie books to help them make up the lack!
#booksky
A singer-songwriter friend would like people to know that while boycotting Spotify is great, it was also 16% of their income that is now cratering. So if you're cancelling Spotify, please pair that with buying music, merch, or live tickets directly from your favorite artists
December 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Don't forget your indie author friends suffering from the Amazon boycott.
Make sure to hit up alternate sources for indie books to help them make up the lack!
#booksky
Make sure to hit up alternate sources for indie books to help them make up the lack!
#booksky
Before our first big snowstorm of the season 🌨️☃️❄️
December 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Before our first big snowstorm of the season 🌨️☃️❄️
Well, this is insightful 😊 I guess my book-loving, grass-touching, happy, blogger self is present & accounted for!
Interestingly, despite my curse-like-a-sailor approach to life, it hasn’t translated here, despite the fuckery of this timeline 🤔
📸 in 💬
See your stats here: anisota.net/harvest
Interestingly, despite my curse-like-a-sailor approach to life, it hasn’t translated here, despite the fuckery of this timeline 🤔
📸 in 💬
See your stats here: anisota.net/harvest
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
anisota.net
December 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Well, this is insightful 😊 I guess my book-loving, grass-touching, happy, blogger self is present & accounted for!
Interestingly, despite my curse-like-a-sailor approach to life, it hasn’t translated here, despite the fuckery of this timeline 🤔
📸 in 💬
See your stats here: anisota.net/harvest
Interestingly, despite my curse-like-a-sailor approach to life, it hasn’t translated here, despite the fuckery of this timeline 🤔
📸 in 💬
See your stats here: anisota.net/harvest
Reposted by Melissa 🏳️🌈
Life is like roasting a marshmallow… a comic about life through birds.
February 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Life is like roasting a marshmallow… a comic about life through birds.
Reposted by Melissa 🏳️🌈
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Reposted by Melissa 🏳️🌈
Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible?
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible?
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Reposted by Melissa 🏳️🌈
If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering and ecological destruction remember that a trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn't work on you.
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering and ecological destruction remember that a trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn't work on you.
Reposted by Melissa 🏳️🌈
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Good morning! Today is World AIDS Day.
Today is about honoring those we've lost, uplifting those living with HIV, and standing firmly for science, equity, and truth -- even when others step back. ❤️🩹
Good morning! Today is World AIDS Day.
Today is about honoring those we've lost, uplifting those living with HIV, and standing firmly for science, equity, and truth -- even when others step back. ❤️🩹
December 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Good morning! Today is World AIDS Day.
Today is about honoring those we've lost, uplifting those living with HIV, and standing firmly for science, equity, and truth -- even when others step back. ❤️🩹
Good morning! Today is World AIDS Day.
Today is about honoring those we've lost, uplifting those living with HIV, and standing firmly for science, equity, and truth -- even when others step back. ❤️🩹
November reading wrap up! Vastly different novels, each profound in its own right… Not sure I could pick a favorite 😍
📖 44/25
📚💙 #booksky #readingwrapup
📖 44/25
📚💙 #booksky #readingwrapup
December 1, 2025 at 5:03 AM
November reading wrap up! Vastly different novels, each profound in its own right… Not sure I could pick a favorite 😍
📖 44/25
📚💙 #booksky #readingwrapup
📖 44/25
📚💙 #booksky #readingwrapup
Post an animated Holiday television special/movie you love.
November 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Post an animated Holiday television special/movie you love.
November 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Mountain Lion
Coyote
Bobcat
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Roadrunner
[Northern NM is truly wild 🤷🏻♀️]
Mountain Lion
Coyote
Bobcat
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Roadrunner
[Northern NM is truly wild 🤷🏻♀️]
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
West Indian Manatee
Sandhill Crane
Timber Rattlesnake
Atlantic Stingray
North American River Otter
West Indian Manatee
Sandhill Crane
Timber Rattlesnake
Atlantic Stingray
North American River Otter
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Swinhoe's pheasant
American ermine
Lesser frigatebird
Eurasian nightjar
Greater roadrunner
Swinhoe's pheasant
American ermine
Lesser frigatebird
Eurasian nightjar
Greater roadrunner
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Mountain Lion
Coyote
Bobcat
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Roadrunner
[Northern NM is truly wild 🤷🏻♀️]
Mountain Lion
Coyote
Bobcat
Diamondback Rattlesnake
Roadrunner
[Northern NM is truly wild 🤷🏻♀️]
Reposted by Melissa 🏳️🌈
Hitting “unsubscribe” over and over, like I’m trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon.
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Hitting “unsubscribe” over and over, like I’m trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon.
Reposted by Melissa 🏳️🌈
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Violent Femmes
Tori Amos
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthew’s Band
Billie Eilish
Violent Femmes
Tori Amos
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthew’s Band
Billie Eilish
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Black Violin
Dropkick Murphy’s
Green Day
Ani DiFranco
Beastie Boys
I have been to a lot but don’t go much anymore. I have very eclectic taste from punk to Vivaldi.
Black Violin
Dropkick Murphy’s
Green Day
Ani DiFranco
Beastie Boys
I have been to a lot but don’t go much anymore. I have very eclectic taste from punk to Vivaldi.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Jonathan Coulton
Sonata Arctica
Jethro Tull
The CruxShadows
The Postal Service
I have eclectic tastes.
Jonathan Coulton
Sonata Arctica
Jethro Tull
The CruxShadows
The Postal Service
I have eclectic tastes.
November 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Violent Femmes
Tori Amos
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthew’s Band
Billie Eilish
Violent Femmes
Tori Amos
Pearl Jam
Dave Matthew’s Band
Billie Eilish
Reposted by Melissa 🏳️🌈
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
Happy heart, full belly. Now time to snuggle in with this cuddle bunny, crack open my book, and probably fall asleep two pages in 😂
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Happy heart, full belly. Now time to snuggle in with this cuddle bunny, crack open my book, and probably fall asleep two pages in 😂
This Thanksgiving by Lauren Mantis
[Stay safe and sane out there. Hydrate, breathe, count the memories not the calories, find joy, walk away if you must. See you on the other side.]
[Stay safe and sane out there. Hydrate, breathe, count the memories not the calories, find joy, walk away if you must. See you on the other side.]
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This Thanksgiving by Lauren Mantis
[Stay safe and sane out there. Hydrate, breathe, count the memories not the calories, find joy, walk away if you must. See you on the other side.]
[Stay safe and sane out there. Hydrate, breathe, count the memories not the calories, find joy, walk away if you must. See you on the other side.]
I could get up off the couch after a long day on my feet and prep more for The Big Meal tomorrow or I could stay seated to defrag (read or play ACNH) and get up earlier tomorrow to handle the rest of the prep 🤔 wwyd?
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I could get up off the couch after a long day on my feet and prep more for The Big Meal tomorrow or I could stay seated to defrag (read or play ACNH) and get up earlier tomorrow to handle the rest of the prep 🤔 wwyd?
Where are all the Bluesky bloggers?
The ones who have been blogging for years? Who enjoying reading and writing long form content? Owning said content? Aren’t solely dependent on social media for all online communication?
Hit me with your blog links, pretty please 🤗
The ones who have been blogging for years? Who enjoying reading and writing long form content? Owning said content? Aren’t solely dependent on social media for all online communication?
Hit me with your blog links, pretty please 🤗
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Where are all the Bluesky bloggers?
The ones who have been blogging for years? Who enjoying reading and writing long form content? Owning said content? Aren’t solely dependent on social media for all online communication?
Hit me with your blog links, pretty please 🤗
The ones who have been blogging for years? Who enjoying reading and writing long form content? Owning said content? Aren’t solely dependent on social media for all online communication?
Hit me with your blog links, pretty please 🤗
Continuing to make my through TEOTWAWKI, new tales from Stephen King’s world of The Stand & it is definitely slow going (all me, the stories are great). At 286 pages in, I’m 1/3 of the way through & aiming to finish these tales before the end of the year. Can I do it?
#booksky💙📚 #amreading #horror
#booksky💙📚 #amreading #horror
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Continuing to make my through TEOTWAWKI, new tales from Stephen King’s world of The Stand & it is definitely slow going (all me, the stories are great). At 286 pages in, I’m 1/3 of the way through & aiming to finish these tales before the end of the year. Can I do it?
#booksky💙📚 #amreading #horror
#booksky💙📚 #amreading #horror